1840

CECIL COUNTY.

itinerant charges shall be allowed to each of the said jurors,
and each of the said justices of the levy court only for once a
week going to, and once a week returning from the said courts
at any one term.

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.
AN ACT to repeal an Act to establish Magistrates Courts in the several
Counties of this State, and to prescribe their Jurisdiction, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, chapter two hun-
dred and one, together with all the supplements thereto, so far as the
same relate to Cecil County.— 1838, ch. 222.

Repealing
clause.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That an act, entitled, an act to establish magistrates' courts in
the several counties of this state and to prescribe their juris-
diction, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
thirty-five, chapter two hundred and one, together with all the
supplements thereto, be and the same are hereby repealed, so
far as the same relates to Cecil county.

Pending
cases pro-
vided for.

Not exceed-
ing $50.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in all cases where suits
have been instituted in said courts for the recovery of a sum
not exceeding fifty dollars, if no judgment has been rendered
thereon, it shall be the duty of their respective chief judges of
said courts to deliver to some justice of the peace of the dis-
trict or county, all the papers and proceedings relative thereto,
and in case any writ of capias ad respondendum, scire facias,
capias ad satisfaciendurn, or fieri facias, issued by either of the
said courts, for the recovery of a sum not exceeding fifty dol-

If in hands
of sheriff.

lars, shall be in the hands of the sheriff, or any constable of
said county, and not returned, it shall be the duty of the she-
riff, or constable as the case may be, to return the same before
some justice of the peace of the district or county, who shall
take such proceedings thereon, as if the same had been origi-
nally issued by a single justice.

Chief judge
shall return
docket to
county
clerk.
His duty on
application,
to issue,
&c,

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the
respective chief judges of said courts, and they are hereby re-
quired forthwith to return to the clerk of said county, the
dockets kept by the said courts, and it shall be the duty of the
said clerk, upon the application of the plaintiff or plaintiffs,
his, her or their agent, or attorney, to make out a true copy of
any judgment, where the sum for which the same is rendered,
does not exceed fifty dollars, upon which copy, any justice of
the peace of said county, may issue execution as is now pro-
vided by law, in case of the resignation, removal from office, or
death of a justice of the peace : and it shall further be the
duty of the said clerk, upon the application of the plaintiff or
plaintiffs, his, her or their agent, or attorney, to issue execu-

Cases over
$50.

tion upon all judgments where the sum for which the same is
rendered, exceeds fifty dollars, directed to the sheriff of said